The Clinton campaign staff disorder, infighting, and frictions shows a lack of leadership ability by non other than the presidential candidate that the staff is expected to promote to victory, one Hillary Clinton.
Yes, I know it has been a long and difficult political campaign and that Hillary has been busy attending fundraisers and at making speeches. However, for the campaign staff to have disintegrated as described in The New Republic article clearly shows a lack of leadership ability right from the top.
As an old New York saying goes “the fish stinks from the head”. The Clinton campaign will be a stinking mess if Hillary loses in Pennsylvania or even if she has a close victory. This is not a game of horseshoes and these days close doesn’t count much for Hillary Clinton.
The United States will have suffered eight years of poor leadership by the time George W. Bush leaves office. We can not afford at least four more years of poor leadership from someone who can not even properly manage a campaign staff, much less a government.
Barack Obama had the guts to say the obvious but is criticized by Clinton and McCain.
Obama used the word “bitter” to describe the attitude of many Americans who are dismayed at the corruption, ineffectiveness, and plain stupidity of their elected and appointed government officials in Washington , D.C. Immediately Hillary Clinton and John McCain went on the attack accusing Obama as an elitist who is “out of touch” with average Americans.
My own opinion is that it is Clinton and McClain who are out of touch. But then I include myself in the growing number of Americans who are bitter at the self inflicted wounds to America that have occurred during the George W. Bush administration.
From the ill conceived and mismanaged war in Iraq, to the tragedy of their mismanaged response to hurricane Katrina, to the unilateral policies that have cost us valuable allies and respect in this world, to establishing torture as an acceptable means of interrogation, to mismanagement of the economy, to the loss of America jobs, there is much to be concerned, and yes, bitter about.
It is unfortunate that any American who speaks the truth about these and other matters is immediately branded as un-American and out of touch.
Let’s hope that the America voters show in November 2008 who is out of touch. Candidates that will say anything to try to gain a few votes should be assigned a permanent position in the dust bin of history. America must have leadership who realizes how far and how fast America is falling off the pinnacle of being a successful empire and who are able to see the challenges that confront our nation.
In a year when political speeches are being made almost every day by the US Presidential candidates how do they measure up the what must surely be one of the greatest political speeches of all time?
No matter what your opinion of Dr Martin Luther King might be if you are at all fair minded you surely must appreciate his ability as a great orator. Just listen to the full “I Have a Dream” speech and see what a powerful delivery is made by Dr. King to a crowd of over one million people, black and white, who marched to Washington D.C. in protest of American’s long standing racist policies.
Of today’s candidates for President Barrack Obama is by far the most powerful speaker. But even as gifted of an orator as Barack is his speeches lack the passion and skill of Martin Luther King’s. Just carefully listen to the I Have a Dream speech. Dr King has perfect timing, perfect cadence, thoughtful words, a strong delivery.
Just words? Yes, but what words. Even a hard nosed bigot would have to be moved by the words, that is if they would only listen.
My advice to Barrack Obama. Do not be fearful of putting passion into your speeches. Watch the I Have a Dream speech. Watch it over and over. There is much for a politician to learn from that great speech.
My advice to Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Find new speech writers. Your speeches are all about you. Not about the increasingly unfortunate Americans that you are making a lot of meaningless promises to. Come to think of it Barrack needs to be careful about this issue too.
Your vote may count but technology may not always allow your vote to be counted as you wish. This scary video shows how the democratic process can be destroyed by the hacking of voting machines.
Americans tend to be a trusting people. If you vote for one candidate you expect that your vote will be recorded for that candidate. But with so much on the line, especially in a Presidential election, can you be sure that your vote is properly recorded? And with the stakes so high can you be sure that somewhere in the candidate’s organizations there are not at least a few ruthless people who would use a hacker to alter voting results if they thought that they could get away with it?
Sadly, with the paperless voting equipment being increasingly used today across America a team of skilled hackers can probably alter election results pretty much as they please. This is a real and present threat to democracy.
Watch the video and as an American who still has faith in our political system weep.
Is the Senator Obama Muslim factor hurting his chances to win the Democratic party presidential nomination?
While Barack Obama is not a Muslim (his father is) the charges are out there and just won’t go away. In a nation that supposedly believes in religious freedom Senator Obama’s religion really shouldn’t matter but it clearly does.
With the average US citizen subject to manipulation by its leaders, and with our “crusade” in the Mid East crazily running along for more than five years, in many American’s minds to be a Muslim is equated with being a terrorist or at least being a terrorist supporter. That’s a sad thing to say but I fear it is largely true.
Even though Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a “madrassa” are not accurate, according to CNN reporting there are stories going around that Obama refused to be swore in as a Senator with his right hand resting on a Bible.
That is certainly not true but is an issue that won’t go away. Senator Obama is a Christian but apparently many otherwise well informed people think otherwise.
While recently visiting my 84 year old mother she made the comment that she would not vote for a Muslim to be the President of the United States. When I said I guess not as there is no Muslim candidate running for president her reply was “well, what about Obama?” When I asked her where she had heard that bit of misinformation she replied she had received an email from a friend who was “well informed” about such matters.
With Obama losing primaries in Nevada and New Hampshire by slim margins a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand “well informed” folks spreading misinformation over the Internet about the Senator’s religious affiliation could make a different in the 2008 presidential election.
